Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-01-01
TT WILL NOT DO.

LII Is stu Olu pOlicy Oh the w 0r10 that
there are times every winter and spring
when moral and business considerations
demand that stock in this section of coun-
try be stabbed and fed. In this course,
this paper has been persistent, consistent
and sincere. 1t has witnessed an almost
general change Of sentiment among our
people on this subject in the past six
years. Where, five or six years ago,
nearly everybody in Trego and Cove
counties believed that the range would
prove adequate in all, or nearly all emer-
gencies, few can now be found who do
not believe that stabling and feed should
be provided for In advance, and used
freely during inclement weather. The
present cold spell will have the effect of
making new converts to this great COM
mon cause. Men can not stand by and
see their cattle die of cold and hunger
without learning lesson therefrom, or
getting started on the road to doing SO.
Such sight appeals to them powerfully;
if not to their heart, then to their purse.
Can this course of starvation longer be
afforded? is the question for this class of
by themselves. 1t is true that feeding
stock necessarily calls for smaller herds.
But what objection can there be to this If
feeding pays? Who would not rather
have one hundred head of fat, frisky,
heavy cattle than three hundred head of
lean, on-the-lift, light cattle? Think of
this moment!
We have been told repeatedly by the
non-feeders of stock that this section of
country can not be depended on for the
production of the feed supply. Those
who favor feeding say that it can. The
World backs the latter class in this po-
sition. But to such non-feeders of stock
as admit that feeding would be desirable
if the feed could be obtained every year,
let us offer some argument. You admit
that feed for stock is desirable. There is
an abundance of it this winter. Some
stock men have good supply; others
have not. Some men who have raised
feed have stock to consume it.; others
have not. Now, why should not every
man, who lacks any of having enough
feed to carry his stock to grass, buy feed
of those who Rave surplus? Stock
men are able to do this. Ii they have not
they have what will bring it.
Why, then, we ask, shonld not our stock
handlers strike hands with the feed
growers in saving stock and securing sach
a distribution of money in this section of
country as would make times good all the
year round?
This stcck-farming policy is the one
which will prevail in this region. Why
not help it along now, and help your
selves and everybody else by saving your
stock and giving business new impetus?
i Western Kansas World, Jan~a,y
?, 1885.
In less than one week it will have been
two years since the above article appeared
as an editorial in this paper. Had its ad-
vice been followed last winter, but few of
5he many losses of live stock in this re-
yion would have been suffered. This
winter, as nearly as we can learn, that
,dvice is being followed as implicitly as
he circumstances of the stock owners
will permit.
Now, the World makes another sug-
yestion: Live stock is not worthless out
lere. Prices, it is true, are low, but they
ire sure to rise in a comparatively-short
ime, at least. The farmers OF western
Kansas who live to witness this rise in
he stock market will he Invisible, of
curse, into several classes. One class
will comprise those who have sold their
took for one-half or less of it's true value.
mother class will consist of those who
night have had hundred, or, for that
natter, several hundred, head of stock
ut did not think them worth buying
ntil after the price got too high. Then
here will be the good old staple class of
practical men, who will
nd themselves enriched in hurry, be-
ause they acted all along on the principle
hat milk and beef production can sus-
ain no more than temporary shock
7hile human tastes remain as they are.
Which of these classes will you join,
eader?
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